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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704825
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4825-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DSA-4825-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DSA-4825-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Dovecot email server.

CVE-2020-24386

When imap hibernation is active, an attacker (with valid credentials to access the mail server) can cause Dovecot to discover file system directory structures and access other users' emails via specially crafted commands.

CVE-2020-25275

Innokentii Sennovskiy reported that the mail delivery and parsing in Dovecot can crash when the 10000th MIME part is message/rfc822 (or if the parent was multipart/digest). This flaw was introduced by earlier changes addressing CVE-2020-12100.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.

For the detailed security status of dovecot please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'dovecot' package(s) on Debian 10.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-24386
Debian Security Information: DSA-4825 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4825
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GXDKFLOCUP7I4ELGQ2F4P5TGC6NXMYV7/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/18
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-01
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160842/Dovecot-2.3.11.3-Access-Bypass.html
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/hibernation/
https://dovecot.org/security
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-25275
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160841/Dovecot-2.3.11.3-Denial-Of-Service.html
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